30 best rose wines. New Zealand and Australia.Michael Crabtree for The Times

Jane MacQuitty

Last updated at 4:42PM, April 29 2010

The Times wine expert picks out the best bottles of the pink stuff from Europe and the New World

If you thought that the craze for pink wines would run out of puff, think
again. This year’s crop of dryer, more food-friendly wines could make rosé
drinkers out of old-school purists too. If you have been a rosé refusnik for
years, it helps to understand that pink wines will never have the refreshing
acidity of white wines, nor the weight, structure and fruit of red wines:
their beauty lies not just in their pretty colour but in their effortless
quaffability. These are wines that you can crack open on dull days and still
feel as if it’s summer. What